UNIV 1101
First-Year Seminar: The Nature of Higher Education 0.5 unit
Prerequisites: Taken within the student’s first 5.0 units of study
An interactive seminar class in which students will develop essential post-secondary competencies, discover university learning resources, and establish an intellectual and social context for their university experience. The course explores the nature, history, structures and functions of higher education, and introduces university learning, the construction of knowledge and critical thinking. Limited enrolment.
UNIV 2100
Portfolio Development0.5 unit
Prerequisite: attendance at a Prior Learning Assessment information session or a meeting with a PLA advisor
A course which leads to Prior Learning Assessment Recognition. Participants will systematically and comprehensively identify, reflect upon, describe, document and present their past learning achievements, formal and informal. The focus will be upon academic and career goals and both learning strengths and learning gaps will be clarified. Participants will produce a well written, well-organized and well-documented portfolio.